Switching hosting services

[Shawn Gossman]

Have you ever had to switch hosting services and move your forum and its database?

How much of a pain was it? Did you do it yourself?

 

[Cedric]

I have before on AJ. Moving from shared to a VPS. Was pretty straightforward. I also had cloudflare setup, so it was a matter of setting up the files and changing the IP to the server. I think we barely had 5 minutes downtime. Not even that. It was difficult to see whether or not it had changed DNS.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I have before on AJ. Moving from shared to a VPS. Was pretty straightforward. I also had cloudflare setup, so it was a matter of setting up the files and changing the IP to the server. I think we barely had 5 minutes downtime. Not even that. It was difficult to see whether or not it had changed DNS.

That's a great server move story!!

 

[Cpvr]

Have you ever had to switch hosting services and move your forum and its database?

How much of a pain was it? Did you do it yourself?

I switched servers about a few months ago. It was a painless process. We transferred everything over via the cpmove command.

If anyone isn’t familiar how to do it, this is the process:

Restore a full Backup / cpmove file Restore a full Backup / cpmove file​

Overview​

This feature allows you to restore full backups, cPanel backups and cPanel move files. You can use this feature to restore a single account that has been backed up, or a cpmove file from another server that has been transferred to your server.



The files will need to be in the following form(s): cpmove-user.tar.gz, user.tar.gz, or backup-date_time_user.tar.gz

Steps​

1 To access the Backup Menu, click on Backup, on the main screen of your WebHost Manager interface.

2 Click on Restore a full Backup / cpmove file.

3 Type the username of the account you wish to restore in the blank field next to Enter the username for the account you wish to restore:

4 Click restore.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I switched servers about a few months ago. It was a painless process. We transferred everything over via the cpmove command.

If anyone isn’t familiar how to do it, this is the process:

Restore a full Backup / cpmove file Restore a full Backup / cpmove file​

Overview​

This feature allows you to restore full backups, cPanel backups and cPanel move files. You can use this feature to restore a single account that has been backed up, or a cpmove file from another server that has been transferred to your server.



The files will need to be in the following form(s): cpmove-user.tar.gz, user.tar.gz, or backup-date_time_user.tar.gz

Steps​

1 To access the Backup Menu, click on Backup, on the main screen of your WebHost Manager interface.

2 Click on Restore a full Backup / cpmove file.

3 Type the username of the account you wish to restore in the blank field next to Enter the username for the account you wish to restore:

4 Click restore.

Great advice!